Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bcc0a9c4ec1bdee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 04:04:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7c71c0a04b49f5039fa8867a445d977e SHA-1: fa18efe39e0f9a544acc32018715a599d41a9d0e SHA-256: 6bcc0a9c4ec1bdee9c187f6dbe822dd5ce11b525e899f82161b1aa0c799559d9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains a link farm and a redirector to a URL associated with malicious activity, disguised as a free download for educational materials. The presence of numerous links to various PDF files, many hosted on Shopify, suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or lure users to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=cambridge+checkpoint+science+coursebook+7+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.davidjuliamusic.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874204/85aef08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.suffolktrainstation.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379099/7810936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.secretseeker.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682022/8451888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pukotejaz.rockyournails.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071157/2413488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3155/1400/files/ielts_speaking_part_2_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4726/3128/files/93242815803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5528/3350/files/dapavejonuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2525/0974/files/black_body_radiation_experiment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4306/0901/files/323_736_5588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7142/2102/files/51476890247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6072/9758/files/somerville_ma_hourly_weather.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0958/6853/files/wikutede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6768/6556/files/32534852897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4959/1718/files/pepiputazawaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4593/6534/files/xizaworevisokiwusol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3305/1814/files/kejezuzer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1251/4201/files/11378972691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000061fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61FA 5852 bytes
SHA-256: 5031c009dcded92c2acc44eb9cb8a33fc324cf6c652176ea85c3829a79daf5c1
font_01_sfnt_off000075d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75D9 10048 bytes
SHA-256: 89de0c4725de93640c7b2ef17f82564e28aa3abf5317a7fba5725e8d8060db02
font_02_sfnt_off0000983c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x983C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34